EP2604550B1 - Automatic plant for storing and dispensing goods - Google Patents

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EP2604550B1
EP2604550B1 EP10855839.6A EP10855839A EP2604550B1 EP 2604550 B1 EP2604550 B1 EP 2604550B1 EP 10855839 A EP10855839 A EP 10855839A EP 2604550 B1 EP2604550 B1 EP 2604550B1
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Francisco Javier MARTÍN DE PABLO
Isabel GONZÁLEZ LÓPEZ
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
    • B65G1/00—Storing articles, individually or in orderly arrangement, in warehouses or magazines
    • B65G1/02—Storage devices
    • B65G1/04—Storage devices mechanical
    • B65G1/06—Storage devices mechanical with means for presenting articles for removal at predetermined position or level
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
    • B65G1/00—Storing articles, individually or in orderly arrangement, in warehouses or magazines
    • B65G1/02—Storage devices
    • B65G1/04—Storage devices mechanical
    • B65G1/0407—Storage devices mechanical using stacker cranes
    • B65G1/0421—Storage devices mechanical using stacker cranes with control for stacker crane operations

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  • the present invention as expressed in the wording of this specification, relates to an automatic plant for storing and dispensing goods, essentially applicable to the pharmaceutical sector, although it is also applicable to any other sector needing to store and dispense different small-sized goods.
  • the products are stored in principle in modular shelves, which may be inclined or not, shelves that are part of characteristic modular shelving units that also configure an elongated shelving structure in the longitudinal direction.
  • the essence of the invention is based on characteristic modular horizontal guides along which respective modular subsets (robots) move, for the loading and unloading of products with respect to the shelves of the modular shelving units, modular horizontal guides that can easily adapt to the required length of the elongated structure of shelving units, so that both loading and unloading subsets have a horizontal translation movement parallel to said elongate structure of shelving units and a vertical movement to access the different levels of the shelves where the products are stored.
  • the invention intends to use the movement generated in linear motors of permanent magnets as translation technology, a consequence is indeed obtaining very good times both in terms of accelerations (1 G, 2G, 3G%) and in final velocities (5 m/sec), while the extraction times depend on the length of the system.
  • the technology used is based in the transmission of movement both in terms of a horizontal direction and in the elevation and descent in a vertical direction by means of notched and plain belts, as well as by other means, such as a worm drive mechanism.
  • the real problem caused by these transmission means comes from the maintenance and wearing out of the pieces, as well as their difficult replacement.
  • Document DE 19724378 A1 discloses a shelf with an unloading device specially designed for small scale products such as medicines for pharmacies.
  • the invention incorporates a discharge appliance formed by a plunger which lifts the products out of the sloping shaft and lets them slide into a collector-container.
  • the plunger has a forward thrust arrangement.
  • a carriage travels along a horizontal runner rail with or without a vertical runner rail with toothed belt drive. Reinforcement struts are between the carriage and vertical rail.
  • Document EP2113473 A1 discloses an automatic plant for storing and dispersing products according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • the invention proposes an automatic plant for storing and dispensing products that comprises a characteristic fully modular automatic storage system that allows reducing the costs of manufacturing, assembling and starting the plant, in addition to a strong control system that is accessible online, which may be accessed for maintenance tasks and in the case of system failures.
  • products are stored in modular shelves of characteristic shelving units that are also modular, configuring an elongated structure in the longitudinal direction.
  • Shelves are arranged at different heights, so that through both longitudinal sides of the elongated structure of shelving units and separated from it, a characteristic front loading subset (robot), which deposits the packaged products in the highest part of the shelves from a side of the elongated structure, and a characteristic rear unloading subset (robot), which downloads the packaged products from the lowest part of the shelves in correspondence with the other side of the elongated structure are arranged, all this carried out automatically.
  • a characteristic front loading subset which deposits the packaged products in the highest part of the shelves from a side of the elongated structure
  • a characteristic rear unloading subset robott
  • the loading and unloading subsets move along characteristic modular horizontal guides that adapt to the length required with respect to the length of the elongated structure of shelving units.
  • Both loading and unloading subsets have a horizontal translation movement parallel to this elongated structure of shelving units and a vertical movement to access the different levels of the shelves where the products are stored.
  • the modular horizontal guides are supported at the top of vertical legs affixed at the bottom in correspondence with a modular base that is also formed by different base plates and stiffening profiles.
  • the modular horizontal guides are characterized in that they comprise a modular upper rail that incorporates permanent magnets and an encoder strip, and an electrified lower rail that constitutes a channel for supplying electricity to a coil incorporated in a revolving movable head coupled to the modular upper rail that moves along thereof with precision and in a controlled manner.
  • the encoder may be optical and/or magnetic depending on the type of linear motor and the precision it needs to operate with.
  • This electrified rail is to supply all the systems of the plant, the transmission system in the "x" axis (horizontal direction) through a driver and a linear motor, and in the "y" axis (vertical direction) through a driver and a rotary servo-motor, and also the signal control and transmission system, both internally and with the external plants.
  • said revolving movable head incorporates skids and also an encoder reader to determine, in combination with the encoder strip, the exact and precise position of the revolving movable head at any time.
  • each of the loading and unloading subsets are assembled on said revolving movable head, incorporating a vertical profile connected to said revolving movable head, while on said vertical profile is coupled a mobile support that can move along said vertical profile.
  • the movable head also incorporates an electronic control panel.
  • Said mobile support incorporates a cradle to hold the respective container containing the corresponding packaged product to deposit it with precision in the modular shelves through the side of the elongated structure of shelving units by means of the loading subset, or to collect it from said inclined modular shelves through the opposite side by means of the other matching unloading subset.
  • the mobility upwards and downwards from the mobile supports is carried out by means of a notched belt coupled to end tooth wheels, one of which is connected to an electric motor element arranged in the upper end of the respective vertical profile.
  • the modular upper rail of the horizontal guide system of the loading and unloading subsets is affixed to the vertical legs by means of revolving plates, while the lower rail is affixed to the legs by means of angular plates.
  • the operation of the plant is basically the following.
  • the product is once again introduced into the warehouse in the product loading area in a semiautomatic manner.
  • the pharmacist will then deposit the packaged product on a belt after passing the product by a barcode reader.
  • the pharmacist will have a drawer to place the packaged product so that he or she does not place it in a wrong place.
  • This belt will move the packaged product through a laser volume measuring system so that a certain packaged product and the dimensions of the container containing the product are allocated to a barcode.
  • the system will assess whether that product is already stored at the shelves of the shelving units, and if so, it will assess whether the dimensions are the same than those recorded, ordering the robot to place that packaged product in the position where the rest of the stored product is located. If that reference does not exist in the warehouse, the system will assign a new location to it.
  • the belt transfers the packaged product to the collecting position of the product for the robot (loading subset).
  • the cradle of the robot collects the product from the belt.
  • the robot carries out the necessary displacement and pushes the packaged product in the channel of the shelving unit where it must be located.
  • the storage of the packaged product in the shelving unit is done by gravity, in such a way that the container with the product slides along the shelf when it is inclined until it meets the final stop of the channel or the container that was loaded previously.
  • the unloading process of the packaged product begins with the instruction given by the pharmacist from his or her working position assisting customers. From this point, the unloading robot is positioned in the channel where the indicated product is located and, from the elevation cradle thereof, a driver comes out, sufficiently elevating the product so that, due to gravity, the product overcomes the final stop of the channel and slides over the cradle.
  • the cradle ensures that the product has been unloaded by means of presence photocells.
  • the robot After carrying out this verification, the robot is positioned at the output point of the material once again and, by opening a gate and once again due to gravity, it deposits the packaged product at the unloading point or on a conveyor belt that takes the product to the reception point of the order placed by the pharmacist.
  • linear servo-motors are used, which are basically defined by the combination of each upper rail with its permanent magnets and the movable head that incorporates the corresponding coiling.
  • servo-motors allow a precise positioning and a much higher velocity than current monitoring mechanisms.
  • having mechanical transmission elements is avoided, avoiding therefore the wearing out of spindles, belts, etc., which mean a reduction in maintenance costs.
  • optical or magnetic encoders will be used to allow the modularity of the system.
  • the necessary extruded aluminum profile is designed in order to withstand the translation guides, as well as the fixed part of the linear motor.
  • All of these elements will be supplied in predetermined standard lengths, so that there are standard modules to carry out the entire path, plus a final section whose length depends on the length of the final plant. In the case of a change of the length of the plant during the manufacturing process, only the final section varies.
  • the modules of the shelving units are manufactured in a modular manner, as above mentioned, in the same length than the sections of the translation system, adjusting the total length of the plant to the intermediate shelves.
  • the inclined shelves have a surface finish that allows the correct sliding of the medicines (packaged products) due to gravity, providing them enough inclination to optimize the space between shelves as well as the fall velocity of containers containing the products. If one product has a significantly lower weight, the shelf may be provided with additional inclination to favor the fall.
  • the fastening system of the shelf to the shelving unit will be carried out by means of quick bindings without the need of tools, so that the embodiment of the shelves may be changed quickly.
  • the guide system is also developed, making up the channels through which the packaged products slide, in a thermoplastic material that favors sliding. These guides may be disassembled quickly in order to change the configuration of the shelf in a quick and simple manner.
  • a robot loading and unloading system (loading and unloading subsets) is intended to be developed, which will use the same fastening base of the column, so they only differ in the loading/unloading device itself, reducing the number of references for the maintenance of the plant.
  • the project includes the development of the application for the governance of the system, which will foreseeably be divided into three large operating blocks: management, maintenance and control.
  • the first of them is in charge of controlling the product entry and exit operations, with their corresponding admissions and discharges in the system, as well as the extraction of expired products; it also encompasses the operations providing statistical data and information about the system and the stored products, as well as commercially valuable information, to assist in the decision-making process.
  • the purpose of the maintenance operation is the optimization of the warehouse by means of recalculations, empty space management, physical redefinition of the shelves, etc.
  • control block is in charge of the physical movements of the system, the communication with the external parts by means of barcode readers, by means of signals of existence or non-existence of the medicine, by means of the calibration of the medicine for one or another cell allocation, etc.
  • the development tasks related to the database are focused so that said database allows the registration and control of information such as:
  • the development activities also include programming the control system of the prototype. Special attention is given at this point within the development of user interfaces so that they allow, in a flexible and intuitive manner, understanding and managing the information related to the products stored and dispensed by means of this system (name of the item, measurements, expiration date, registry reference number, etc.).
  • the automatic plant for storing and dispensing products is determined from an elongated structure 1 that supports modular shelving units 2 with shelves 3, arranged at different heights and overlapping below each other and beside each other as well.
  • the loading 5 and unloading 6 subsets have a horizontal translation movement parallel to this elongated structure 1 of shelving units and a vertical movement to access the different levels of the shelves 3, where the products are stored.
  • the modular horizontal guides 4 are supported at the top of vertical legs 7 affixed at the bottom in correspondence with a modular base that is also formed by different base plates 8 and stiffening profiles 9, said vertical legs 7 being joined thereof.
  • the modular horizontal guides 4 comprise a modular upper rail 10 that incorporates permanent magnets 11 and an encoder strip 12.
  • the horizontal modular guides 4 incorporate a lower rail 13 that constitutes a channel for supplying electricity to a coil incorporated in a revolving movable head 14 coupled to the modular upper rail 10 that moves along said modular upper rail 10 with precision and in a controlled manner.
  • the electrified lower rail 13 supplies all the elements of the plant requiring electricity.
  • the revolving movable head 14 also incorporates skids and an encoder reader to determine, in combination with the encoder strip 12, the exact and precise position of the revolving movable head 14 at any time. It incorporates an electronic control panel 17.
  • each of the loading 5 and unloading 6 subsets is affixed, incorporating a vertical profile 15 for said purpose, which is connected to said revolving movable head 14, while a mobile support 16 is coupled to said vertical profile 15, which moves along said vertical profile 15.
  • the mobile support 16 incorporates a cradle 18 to house the respective container containing the corresponding product to deposit it with precision in the modular shelves 3 through a side of the elongated structure of shelving units by means of the loading subset 5, or to collect it from said shelves 3 through the opposite side through another matching unloading subset 6.
  • the mobility upwards and downwards from the mobile supports 16 is carried out by means of a notched belt 19 coupled to end tooth wheels 20, one of which is connected to an electrical motor 21 arranged at the upper end of the vertical profile 15.
  • the modular upper rail 10 of the horizontal guide system of the loading 5 and unloading 6 subsets is affixed to the vertical legs 7 by means of revolving plates 22, while the lower rail is affixed to the legs by means of angular plates 23.
  • linear motors combined with electrified guides and wireless systems are to maintain other systems (sets 5 and 6) with the purpose of transporting and positioning materials.
  • these linear motors only have one support point, wherein the movement is generated and applied.
  • said linear motors do not need to have a fixed point of reference (where it is generated) and a referenced point (where it is applied and from where it is supplied).

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